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First performed in a concert of the Swiss Computer Music Center with soloist Franziska Staeheli. Later performances in Bern (with a short lecture about it by me) and in Schaffhausen. Bruno Spoerri also played the tape abroad, in a demonstration of our work here.

Preparation for the work involved analysis of several Chinese instruments; Ch’in (a zither), gong and wood block. The wave analysis was done with a computer program and my imitations were realized on the Computer Music Center’s DMX. There are two sets of texts: from the Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse) and from the I Ching. The Lao Tse texts were chosen by me and set with traditional notation. The I Ching texts were chosen by chance (with the computer) and set with a computer generated graphic notation. Proportions within the piece were also made with a computer program using chance and units of Golden Section. (More details in the introduction to the score).

This piece could be performed with two singers: one singing the Tao texts, the other singing the I Ching texts.

• Powell: Chinese Songs; computer-set 

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• Powell: Prepared Tape  Year: 1994 

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• Powell: Devotion to the Small; facsimile 

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• Powell: Devotion to the Small 

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• Harlow - Powell: Radio NZ Archive Recordings 

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For tape, live electronics, electronic and acoustic percussion, electric guitar, electric bass, piano and voice

• John Psathas and David Downes: selected works 

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clarinet, clarinet/bass-clarinet, violin/viola, cello, percussion (marimba, 9 drums in high to low sequence, drum of fluctuating pitch, bass drum, 5 suspended cymbals, ching - Thai finger cymbals, bell tree, rasp, 2 woodblocks, 3 temple blocks, wood chimes)

This monodrama for mezzo soprano and chamber sextet, commissioned by Northern Arts UK, tells of the 14th century North of England warrior Henry Percy (Hotspur), seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Mortimer, in a striking ballad sequence written by Fleur Adcock.

Whitehead’s imaginative score combines exotic and arresting instrumental colours, a strong dramatic vocal line (often with flamboyant flourishes) and an admirable overall conception of the mood changes and tonal graduation of the work. (William Dart, NZ Listener)

She has the rare gift of knowing when to us nightmarish vehemences and when to be utterly straightforward and calm. (Roger Covell, Sydney Morning Herald).

• Whitehead: Hotspur; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Hotspur; facsimile 

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• Gillian Whitehead: selected works 

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• Anthology of Australian music - Dramatic vocal music  Year: 1997 

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• Powell: Nelson Songs; facsimile 

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• Powell: Nelson Songs; facsimile 

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• Kit Powell: Nelson Songs; audio 

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• Powell: Nelson Songs; electroacoustic part 

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For baritone voice, baritone saxophone, piano (as percussion) wine glasses, claves, amplification and two-channel tape

• Lockwood: Night and Fog; facsimile 

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• Thomas Buckner - Full Spectrum Voice  Year: 1991 

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• Pepe Becker: Many Waters  Year: 2000 

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